Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expected to follow in the tradition set by "First Cruise," classbook for the entering naval unit, the forthcoming publication will feature cartoons by Walt Disney depicting Donald Duck dressed as a typical student officer, undergoing the various rigors and trials of indoctrinal training. Pictures of each student will appear in the book, as well as descriptions of an indoctrinee's life...
...center, Don Bitler is one of the best snappers-back in the East. Bitler gained his experience under the famous Ray Frick two years ago, and last year he was a regular. this season, naturally, he expects his best year. His replacement, Walt Weismiller, won his letter last year...
Bambi (Disney; RKO-Radio) may not be "the best picture I have ever made, and the best ever to come out of Hollywood" (as Walt Disney claims, but it is in many respects the best of his six full-length cartoon movies. The chief hurdle it has to take is the high standard of its predecessors...
Teacher Disney has not yet been welcomed as a colleague by professional pedagogues. Three years ago one of his greatest admirers, Harvard's Professor Robert D. Feild (author of The Art of Walt Disney), was dropped by Harvard's conservative art department because of too much enthusiasm for modern art, particularly Disney's. But Disney is by all odds the most successful cinema educator to date. Says FORTUNE: "Previous educational movies, with such rare exceptions as the MARCH OF TIME and Pare Lorentz films, have been dull as dishwater and often embarrassingly coy in the bargain. Disney...
...uncontested by-election last week Stoker Edwards, former dockers' union leader and ardent piano thumper, won his seat. Next day he returned to active duty .at sea. Cracked his constituents: "01' Walt'll build some fires under them White hall toffs...